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Haryana to recruit 11,000 teachers
Honda strike enters third day
Sans potable water for six months
Ultrasound machine sealed for PNDT Act violation
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Revision of voters’ list begins
Bansi’s granddaughter alleges bid to grab property
Centre should fund dams on Yamuna: Hooda
Ganeshi Lal flays Hooda govt
Hooda to inaugurate GJU hostels
Ambala division awarded shield
Ex-Principal, exam centre supdt get 3-yr jail
Crackdown on illegal miners
State police on TN poll duty
Malik made Additional AG
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Haryana to recruit 11,000 teachers
New Delhi, April 12 This was stated by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda while speaking at a function organised by Rezangla Shorya Samiti here today where he gave away Kisan Vikas Patras, each valued Rs 5000, to 29 girls hailing from Rewari and belonging to the families whose members have sacrificed their lives for the integrity of the country, a release said. The Chief Minister stressed the need for creating an awakening among the masses so as to eradicate the evil of female foeticide from the society. An innovative incentive oriented scheme, known as ‘ladli’ had been implemented under which Rs 5,000 were being given per year for five years on the birth of second daughter in the family. Also, another scheme known as Indira Gandhi Priyadarshni Vivah Shagun Yojana has been implemented to give a financial assistance of Rs 15000 for marriage of the girls belonging to Scheduled Castes families and living below the poverty line. A separate university would be set up for women in the state and 25 per cent of seats have been reserved for girls in all industrial training institutes and polytechnics. He also said that a number of schemes were being implemented for the welfare of ex-servicemen, freedom fighters, serving soldiers and their dependents. Earlier, the Chief Patron of Razangla Shorya Samiti, Col Rao Ram Singh, who is also former Union Minister, sought similar financial assistance for the daughters of all families of martyrs in Rewari district from the Government and the Indian Army by the end of Year of the Girl Child-2006. |
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Honda strike enters third day
Gurgaon, April 12 The talks were still on at the time of filing of this report, but reports emanating from the manufacturing plant of the firm said breakthrough in the logjam was not in the offing. It is the 1,500 casual workers who are on “tools down” strike to press for regularisation of their services.Their second demand is that their salary must be increased. There are about 1,200 regular workers in the plant. The management has sent them on leave since the first day of the strike in view of the belligerent mood of the casual workers. In effect, the production was totally affected on the third day today. The plant produces, on an average, 5,000 two-wheelers each day. The workers on strike stayed overnight at the plant for the second consecutive day yesterday. The Joint Labour Commissioner from Chandigarh, Mr M.S. Yadav, rushed to the plant this morning and took part in several rounds of talks that took place between the management and the workers.
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Sans potable water for six months
Ramayan (Hisar), April 12 Nearly 10,000 residents of Ramayan and Dhandheri villages, located near the Delhi-Hisar national highway near Hansi subdivision, have been drinking contaminated water for the past six months. According to the villagers, their repeated requests to the department and the district administration have fallen on deaf ears. The situation will worsen with the onset of summer, especially in view of erratic power supply. The residents are getting drinking water once in three or four days. About half of the village does not even get that. “Many a time, the water supplied is dirty and smelly but we have no alternative but to use it for drinking and cooking food,” says Ajit Singh. Sarpanch Jaswant Singh Singhal says that many villagers fall ill due to the contaminated water but the officials concerned have failed to take any action. Many villagers have got hand pumps installed on the outskirts of the village or in their fields as the underground water in the village is not fit for drinking. A survey of the village revealed that poor maintenance of the waterworks, lack of cleanliness and mixing of pond water with potable water due to faulty and leaking supply lines were chiefly responsible for the situation. About a year ago, two tanks were constructed at a cost of Rs 40 lakh. However, one of the tanks has not been constructed properly, due to which the water seeps out. Moreover, the villagers assert that silt has deposited in the old water tanks, which absorbs water. The tanks, which are supposed to be cleaned every six months, have not been cleaned for the past 10 years, they allege. While five employees are required to run the waterworks, only two are posted here.
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Ultrasound machine sealed for PNDT Act violation
Rewari, April 12 The team comprised of Dr Rohtash Yadav, state TB Officer, Dr Mirdu Bala Sharma, Civil Surgeon, Dr K.S. Rao, District Family Welfare Officer, Dr V.K. Jain, District Immunisation Officer, Mr Narender Singh Ahuja, District Drugs Inspector, Faridabad, and Mr Anil Punia, Dealing Assistant, PNDT, Faridabad. The team was constituted by Dr Neel Kanth Sharma, Director-General of Health Services, Haryana, who himself supervised the entire proceedings. The team sent a decoy patient (a pregnant woman, Nidhi, wife of Manoj Kumar of Gangaicha Ahir village, near here), along with marked currency notes of Rs 2,400 for pre-natal sex determination test to the Bhargava hospital. She gave the currency notes as the fees for the test to Dr Ashok Bhargava, husband of Dr Vijay Bhargava, proprietor of the hospital, following which she was taken inside the ultrasound room. The members of the squad nabbed the couple while conducting the test and recovered the currency notes from Dr Ashok Bhargava. The room and the ultrasound machine were sealed. The registration of the hospital for conducting ultrasound tests has been cancelled and a show cause notice served on the couples by the District Appropriate Authority as to why they should not be prosecuted under the PNDT Act for such a gross violation of the Act.
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Revision of voters’ list begins
Karnal, April 12 Mr Gupta said electoral rolls
were published on April 4 and these had been displayed at all polling booths and in the office of
DRO, electoral registration officer concerned and the office of DPRO. Voters’ list will be displayed for general public till April 25 to enable voters to check details in the electoral rolls. Electoral rolls having photograph of every voter were published for all six Assembly constituencies of the district. The DC said purpose of revising voters’ list was to make these free from errors with the help of voters and political parties. The names of the dead and those who had shifted to other places would be deleted and the voters who would be eligible for the first time to get their names enlisted as voter on January 1, 2006 or were already eligible but somehow their names were left out, their names would also be registered. Mr Gupta said errors, if any, would be corrected by filling form number 8 and submitting it to the concerned electoral registration officer.
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Bansi’s granddaughter alleges bid to grab property
Chandigarh, April 12 In a statement issued here today, Ms Choudhary said though the efforts to grab her property had been on since the death of her father Surender Singh, these efforts gained momentum after the death of her grandfather. These persons, she alleged, could not succeed in their designs till Mr Bansi Lal was alive because he had deep affection for her. She said Surender Singh had willed the disputed house in Sarvpriya Vihar in Delhi, to her but now certain members of the family were trying to grab it. She said the most regrettable thing was that she was not being allowed to contact her grandmother, who was also being “pressurised ”by these family members to give false statements against her. She said she had offered to take grandmother with her to Delhi. Ms Choudhary also accused her cousin of being involved in the conspiracy, the prime motive of which, she alleged, was not only to grab her property but also to deprive her mother, Ms Kiran Choudhary, a Haryana Minister, and her from the political inheritance of Bansi Lal and Surender Singh.
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Centre should fund dams on Yamuna: Hooda
New Delhi, April 12 Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was speaking at the third meeting of the Upper Yamuna Review Committee, presided over by its Chairman Saif-ud-Din Soz and attended by Chief Ministers and ministers of the basin states here today, said he had also written to Primer Minister Manmohan Singh for early construction of storage dams on the Yamuna. The storage projects of
Kishau, Renuka and Lakhwar Vyasi should preferably be got constructed by a Central agency with adequate financing by the Central Government.
— TNS
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Ganeshi Lal flays Hooda govt
Panipat, April 12 Talking to the reporters here yesterday, Mr Ganeshi Lal blamed the state government for adopting an indifferent attitude towards the public. He blamed the government for not taking approval from the central agencies and putting Rs 300 crore of the public money proposed for the canal at stake. He along with senior functionaries of the party was here to oversee the preparations for the forthcoming “rath yatra” of Mr L. K. Advani, scheduled to enter Haryana on May 9. Mr Advani would address public rallies at Panipat and Sonepat on the same day. He termed the recent visit of the Prime Minister to Panipat as useless as no concrete announcement was made at the function.
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Hooda to inaugurate GJU hostels
Hisar, April 12 The Boys Hostel No.3 has been constructed at a cost of Rs 2 crore and the Girls Hostel No. 3 at a cost of Rs 2.15 crore. Mr Hooda will lay the foundation stone of an auditorium with a seating capacity for 2,500 persons. The construction of the auditorium is expected to be completed within 12 months at a cost of Rs 12 crore. The Chief Minister will also address the university teachers, students and officials during his visit.
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Ambala division awarded shield
Chandigarh, April 12 Mr M.S. Chalia, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, Ambala division, who received the award from the General Manager, Northern Railway, Mr V.N. Mathur, told The Tribune that the shield was awarded for generating maximum revenue, modernisation of railway stations and cleanliness. Against an income of Rs 1055 crore during the financial year 2004-2005, the income during financial year 2005-2006 was Rs 1142.15 crore.
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Ex-Principal, exam centre supdt get 3-yr jail
Fatehabad, April 12 The police had arrested Bhim Sien Baghla, the then principal of the local Senior Secondary Model School, Mani Ram, Superintendent of the examination centre of the Haryana Board of School Education, Itbari Ram, a guard, Ashok Kumar, Balwant Singh, Pritpal, Bijender, Balvinder and Sarabjit Singh for stealing question papers of the board exam and selling these in the market. When their deeds came to notice of the authorities, they allegedly burnt the papers to destroy evidence. A team of the board officials raided the school and found that the locks of the almirahs in which the papers were kept, were intact but some question papers from the bundles of Hindi, English, science, social studies, Sanskrit and mathematics were found missing.
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Crackdown on illegal miners
Yamunanagar, April 12 Mining was banned in the area last year after the swelling Yamuna changed course and several villages were inundated. The department had blocked all routes leading to the mining zone last year by digging trenches.
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State police on TN poll duty
Chandigarh, April 12 Official sources said the Election Commission had originally wanted 10 companies from Haryana for deployment.
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